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- Yeah. - Nah.
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- There you go. - Thank you.
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- You want a soda? - Yeah, I appreciate it.
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You know, there's something very wrong with that.
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What, that I gave the guy your Coke? The quarter?
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Both of them, both of them. It's bad for both of you.
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Him because it's not really gonna help him.
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And you because that relationship is naturally going to involve...
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that condescending element, maybe even contempt.
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Granted giving the man a quarter isn't gonna change his life around.
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I do realize that. There are better ways to help.
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- I've been looking into these groups. - That's what I'm talking about.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about. See, we're conditioned to assume...
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that suffering is bad.
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It's not. See, when you pity someone...
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all you're able to see is this base creature in them.
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You can't see any true potential.
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I think it's their potential I do see.
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But it's like all these other futile causes that you fall into.
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They all stem from a certain weakness.
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You know, psychologically, helping everyone else out is easier.
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It's an escape from working on yourself, from perfecting yourself.
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Yeah, Mr. Perfect here.
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You know, that's what I hate. When you start talking like this.
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It's like you're just pulling these things from the shit you read.
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You haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us...
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and totally unoriginal.
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Great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.
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It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces...
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from your authoritative sources.
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I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect maybe there's nothing really in
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there.
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Suspect, you're beginning to suspect.
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Oh, that's rich. That's really rich.
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So what? At least what is there is based on good sources.
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At least I'm not chained to this slave morality that seems to rule your
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life.
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Thank you very much. You know, everyone else just thinks you're an asshole.
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- Great. - The more I get to know you...
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I just feel sorry for you.
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- I'm glad they think I'm an asshole. - I bet you are.